Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] now [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | This landed wealth of Egypt was , later in the fifth century , exploited by rentier Iranian landowners who screwed all they could out of the local peasants : their demands are preserved in Aramaic on leather documents bought in Egypt in 1943–4 and now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford . |
2 | My hon. Friend has been an effective and persuasive advocate in private and now in the House of the interests of his constituents . |
3 | A bronze snake around five feet long , found at Thebes in 1911 and now in the British Museum , is thought to have been used by a magician . |
4 | Some 60 letters written by Sir William Hillary to the Institution between 1824 and 1845 and now in the RNLI 's archives have recently been treated for preservation and placed in a presentation box — the cost being met from money raised by the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society . |
5 | The eighty-one plates still extant and now in the possession of the museum of Raleigh in North Carolina , were acquired during the eighteenth century by the French amateur engraver Claude-Henri Watelet who in turn sold them to Pierre-François Basan . |